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lundi 27 septembre 2010

TOOLS THAT SMACK OF INFIDELITY

By Tikum Mbah Azonga

He couldn`t do it at allAt least, not at that momentThat`s why our pastor sent for the builderBut he appeared without his trowelWe then sent for the doctorBut she came without her stethoscope.

If you think life`s just a round ballThen you mean holy communion is host without cementFor our man, what mattered was pure, unalloyed silverNot even the new bathroom towelThat`s why if you bump into any inspectorAsk him to first locate a fresh water polyp with his periscope.

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I speak over twenty languages. I have native-level command of both French and English. In fact, after my higher education in France, I was recruited by France and seconded to a High School in London as a "French Mother Tongue" teacher, or what is commonly referred to as a Foreign Language Assistant. I am by training a journalist, teacher of French and Spanish, as well as a translator-interpreter. I studied in Cameroon, France and England.I have criss crossed Africa and Europe.I have worked as a journalist and teacher of French and Spanish in some United Kingdom High Schools, but especially in London. Today, I teach journalism at the University of Buea in Cameroon.
I have published books of poetry in English and French, some of which are official text books in Cameroonian schools. I am currently working on a collection of poems in Spanish and another in Ewondo, a variety of the Beti language spoken in three of Cameroon's ten regions as well as in parts of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.